Representing Women
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2019
Summary
Representing Women: A Feminist Art History
Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual figures, even in their absence - permeate 19th- and 20th-century Western painting; their representation stands as a central theme.
Representing Women gathers Linda Nochlin’s seminal writings on this subject, examining works by Miller, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, Cassatt, Kollwitz, and many more. In a captivating, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin chronicles h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500294758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500294755 |
| Author: | Linda Nochlin |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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‘Fascinating … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment’ - Andrea Dworkin‘A joy to read … blunt, funny, mischievous, learned, anything but dull and dogmatic’ - London Review of Books‘Outstanding … rich and methodologically sophisticated’ - Art in America‘Invaluable’ - Art Journal‘If you care about the representation of women, you need to read this … Nochlin’s direct, provocative and personal tone is a radical rewriting of women in art history’ - Elephant
About The Author
Linda Nochlin
Linda Nochlin (1931–2017) was Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She wrote extensively on issues of gender in art history and on 19th-century Realism. Her numerous publications include Women, Art and Power, Representing Women and Courbet, as well as the pioneering essay from 1971: ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’
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